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Dom Smith

Three things we learned from Chelsea defeat as Cole Palmer loses the battle and his cool

Anger: Cole Palmer - (REUTERS)

Chelsea squandered a first-half lead to lose 2-1 at home to Aston Villa as they suffered their third defeat in December.

The Blues often suffer a dip in form in the final month of the year, and so it is proving once more after Ollie Watkins’s brace off the bench consigned them to defeat at Stamford Bridge.

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